kidnapping

A 22-year-old Reisterstown man was sentenced to life-plus 85 years in prison in Howard County Circuit Court Thursday morning in connection with the execution-style shooting of a 15-year-old boy in a Marriottsville field in 2012.

An Annapolis woman has been charged with witness intimidation in an attempted murder case involving the mayor's cousin.

Police and relatives of abducted girl Caitlyn Virts credited the use of the Amber Alert system and the quick, eager fingers of social media users with helping authorities find the 11-year-old in South Carolina Friday.

Law enforcement officials released an Amber Alert for the Baltimore metropolitan area.

An 11-year-old girl was abducted by her father from a Baltimore area home where her mother was found murdered on Thursday morning, and authorities are searching across Maryland and West Virginia, police said.

Donte Powell, 27, of Washington and Douglas Mention, 26, of South Carolina, are charged with armed robbery, kidnapping and weapons charges in connection with the Feb. 4 incident.

The year just ended brought a number of significant milestones, most of them good, to the area covered by The Record, including a couple of noteworthy sports accomplishments, completion of a major highway project, the end of a couple of eras in our history, the celebration of another and possibly the beginning of another of historical proportions.

The third and final defendant in the Marriottsville shooting pleaded guilty on Monday in connection with the kidnapping and execution-style shooting of a 15-year-old boy in a Marriottsville field in 2012.

A recap of the Oct. 27 episode of 'Homeland,' as Carrie becomes the hunted

Cal Ripken Jr.'s mother has been the victim of two violent crimes in a little over a year

Four men pleaded guilty in the kidnapping an 8-year-old boy in order to get money and heroin two years ago, according to the Baltimore State's Attorney's office.

Sexual slavery is a problem in all 50 states but one that gets scant attention except in cases like former Ohio bus driver Ariel Castro.

A Texas truck driver is being investigated for possibly kidnapping a woman who had hitched a ride with him from Dallas to Aberdeen this weekend, Maryland State Police said.

Baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. will stand before the media on Thursday morning, flanked by local and federal law enforcement officials, and again call for the public's help in solving the bizarre abduction of his mother last summer.

Maybe the result will be learning the "why and everything else" of a particularly bizarre, and chilling, crime.

Walking around the Aberdeen IronBirds' stadium that bears her family's name, Vi Ripken says she feels protected in her hometown a year after her mysterious kidnapping and safe return, but everyday moments can be startling and leave her "thinking thoughts you shouldn't be thinking."

One year after Violet Ripken was kidnapped at gunpoint from her Harford County home and driven around the Baltimore region for nearly 24 hours before being returned unharmed, police in her hometown of Aberdeen are still searching for the man responsible.

A Baltimore County jury on Thursday found a city man guilty in the rape and kidnapping of 17-year-old community college student last October.

Memories of the1933 Baltimore kidnapping of Albert Hendler, scion of the Hendler Creamery Co. family, have recently been revived in an exhibition of documents relating to the case at the Crime Museum in Washington.

The Harford County Sheriff's Office has stepped up patrols in the Bel Air-area Cedarday community after a man driving a van reportedly chased several children as they were walking home from school last Wednesday.

Port Deposit man sentenced to 7 years in prison for probation violation after false tip

A German native who consorted for years with New England's social elite by pretending to be a Rockefeller was convicted Wednesday in Los Angeles of first-degree murder, capping a nearly three-decade-old mystery involving a missing couple and a body buried in a Southern California backyard.

A woman received a life sentence Friday for murder in connection with the 2009 death of a man in the bathtub of a White Marsh apartment ¿ after which officials say she and her co-conspirators disposed of pieces of the body in the Loch Raven and Liberty Road areas.

A 22-year-old Glen Burnie man is in custody for allegedly strangling his 62-year-old great aunt to death Tuesday in the 300 block of Gatewater Court, police said.

An Abingdon man was held without bail after being charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman with whom he had been in a relationship.

Teen who alleged police kidnapping in trouble with law

Vi Ripken, the mother of baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., was abducted from outside of her home. She was tied up and put in the back seat of her car and driven all around Central Maryland. She was later found with her hands bound but unharmed in her car parked a few houses away from her Aberdeen home.

Donald Shields of Baltimore is in jail after confronting a boy who allegedly bullied his son. The case has drawn much interest, with some seeing Shields as a good father looking out for his son.

Father was upset after learning student picked on his son.

The man police believe kidnapped Violet R. Ripken from her Aberdeen home stopped at a Middle River Walmart the day after the July abduction and may have had a brief encounter with the driver of a dark green minivan, Lt. Fred Budnick said Monday.

A 22-year-old Milford Mill man has been arrested in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl in the Ten Hills neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, according to Baltimore police.

It was broad daylight as the 17-year-old community college student left her bus near busy Edmondson Avenue in Catonsville. Two men in a gold SUV pulled up and forced her gunpoint into the back seat, where police said one raped her, then stole her phone and wallet.

Dean Myrie helped kidnap money smuggler Michael Knight after he was suspected of stealing from the organization; Knight was killed when he would not say where $250,000 went